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Post by hawk on May 29, 2015 22:19:03 GMT
O.k. who is for or against WoTC bringing back Bithright. Beuhler..... Beuhler....
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Post by hawk on Jun 2, 2015 1:31:26 GMT
Come on guys... no opinions on Birthright?
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Post by Samuel Wise on Jun 2, 2015 1:46:32 GMT
Come on guys... no opinions on Birthright? To be honest (and this is coming from a brand new DM) I don't know what Birthright is...
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Post by hawk on Jun 2, 2015 2:06:10 GMT
Thanks for the note. I pulled this from the www.birthright.net site: Birthright was originally set up by TSR for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition ruleset. It is now the property of Wizards of the Coast, who have let the fan community at www.birthright.net develop a Dungeons & Dragons Edition 3.5 version (commonly called the BRCS) with their blessing.
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Post by hawk on Jun 2, 2015 2:08:14 GMT
I plan on purchasing the old material then upgrading it for my game. Great for a fun twist for groups that want deeper political intrigue.
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Post by Samuel Wise on Jun 2, 2015 2:34:27 GMT
So is this a list of new races/classes/worlds or is Birthright supposed to be an entirely new game?
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Post by hawk on Jun 2, 2015 2:44:46 GMT
It was released in the 2e ruleset... so it can be converted
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Post by joatmoniac on Jun 2, 2015 8:26:58 GMT
It is an old Campaign Setting like Dark Sun, Dragonlance, Eberron, Forgotten Realms, etc. I would be surprised if WotC chose to pick Birthright since it has given the setting to the community to develop. Also, here is a 5E conversion someone made already boldpueblo.com/downloads/5e/5e-birthright-conversion.pdf haven't had much experience with it myself, but pretty interesting how it was given to the people.
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Post by friartook on Jun 2, 2015 13:34:11 GMT
I was pretty into the 2e settings back when I had less gray on my head and less hair on my chin, but I never touched Birthright...nor Greyhawk ironically. I was pretty into Planescape, Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance with a light dash of Spelljammer. I really enjoyed Eberron when that came out as well.
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Post by Skedrix on Jun 11, 2015 17:50:42 GMT
Great for a fun twist for groups that want deeper political intrigue. I'm no George R. R. Martin, so I'm not very good at adding deeper political intrigue to my game on my own. Does Birthright have rules for this? Actually, I've heard quite a few people who have said they'd like Birthright to be brought back as another officially published D&D campaign setting, but I don't really know much about the setting itself. What does Birthright do that sets it apart from other campaign settings? What makes it unique? Why should I want to play it? I've heard some mentions of large-scale battles being a possible focus of a potential 5th Edition Birthright campaign setting, or perhaps kingdom management. Is that what Birthright does? Or is it just another vanilla world with different lore? For example, the Dark Sun campaign setting is unique because it's a post-apocalyptic magic-less D&D setting with a heavy focus on psionics. At the opposite end of the spectrum, Eberron is an extremely magic-heavy campaign setting, including magepunk type technologies such as the lightning rail (trains that levitate over lightning-infused stones), airships held aloft by bound elementals, and the warforged, a race of sentient constructs. The Planescape campaign setting focuses on traveling to different planes of existence--including other D&D worlds--via portals, whereas the Spelljammer campaign setting allows travel between D&D worlds via D&D in space.
On the other hand, there are campaign settings like Forgotten Realms, Mystara, Dragonlance, and Greyhawk that, other than lore and locations specific to their respective worlds, I'm not sure what any of them actually do differently. In my experience, they all seem to be pretty vanilla fantasy settings, albeit regular vanilla, french vanilla, vanilla bean and soft serve. Assign them as you will. Now, there's nothing wrong with plain vanilla. Plenty of people love it. Forgotten Realms is probably the most popular campaign setting of all, if TSR's and WotC's product lines are any indication. I just don't see anything other than the incredible depth and breadth of lore devoted to this world as distinguishing it from any other generic fantasy setting. Of course, the lore can make a setting pretty amazing, too. So, why Birthright? Obviously it's a setting you're passionate about, so it must be a setting worth something. I don't really know anything about it, but I would like to.
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Post by friartook on Jun 11, 2015 18:26:37 GMT
Great for a fun twist for groups that want deeper political intrigue. Forgotten Realms, Mystara, Dragonlance, and Greyhawk...regular vanilla, french vanilla, vanilla bean and soft serve In that order?
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Post by Skedrix on Jun 11, 2015 19:38:34 GMT
Forgotten Realms, Mystara, Dragonlance, and Greyhawk... regular vanilla, french vanilla, vanilla bean and soft serve. Assign them as you will.From my experience, this is how I see them: Greyhawk = regular vanilla Forgotten Realms = french vanilla Mystara = vanilla bean Dragonlance = soft serve These are completely arbitrary decisions, made in the heat of the moment. I'm not entirely set on the pairings for Mystara and Dragonlance, though. Only picked Mystara for vanilla bean because the two Capcom arcade games for D&D were set in Mystara, and Dragonlance seems the softest of the campaign settings to me. But the limit of my knowledge of Mystara starts with Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom and ends with Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara. My Greyhawk knowledge is limited to my time in the RPGA, with Living Greyhawk. Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance I'm pretty familiar with over several editions. ...Though it could derail the topic entirely if we start pairing vanillas (vanilli? vanillae? vanillasauruses?) with campaign settings, I'll hazard a return question: how would you order them?
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Post by hawk on Jun 14, 2015 23:53:55 GMT
Of course you all realize that I am staring at you blankly like a zombie barrista because you didn't preface your vanilla bean with grande or tall with an extra shot.
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Post by Samuel Wise on Jun 15, 2015 0:26:56 GMT
An extra shot of what? Can't give vanilla any more vanilla...
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Post by friartook on Jun 15, 2015 1:10:59 GMT
As a former barista I am secretly rolling my eyes at your lame coffee shop jokes while simultaneously using the secret skill of latte art to write "prick" into the foam of your vente triple shot caramel mocha.
I smile at you condescendingly as you pick up your drink and say, "Enjoy."
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